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Microsoft Open Sources its Windows Calculator

posted by chromas on Friday March 08 2019, @10:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the 5318008 dept.

takyon writes:

calc.exe is now open source; there's surprising depth in its ancient code

Microsoft's embrace and adoption of open source software has continued with the surprising decision to publish the code for Windows Calculator and release it on GitHub under the permissive MIT license.

The repository shows Calculator's surprisingly long history. Although it is in some regards one of the most modern Windows applications—it's an early adopter of Fluent Design and has been used to showcase a number of design elements—core parts of the codebase date all the way back to 1995.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday March 09 2019, @01:26AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 09 2019, @01:26AM (#811854) Journal

    a calculator is actually a quite sophisticated ... tool

    Hah!

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  • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Saturday March 09 2019, @05:10AM (1 child)

    by Immerman (3985) on Saturday March 09 2019, @05:10AM (#811947)

    Beats the heck out of an abacus or slide rule - and they got us to the moon.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday March 09 2019, @10:00AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 09 2019, @10:00AM (#811986) Journal

      Yeah, right.
      Marvel at the complexity of a (snitching) calculator application, while it runs on a computer.

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